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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
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there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.
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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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